Subject: Re: Installation Problems on a DECStation 5000/25
To: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
From: Jonathan Stone <jonathan@DSG.Stanford.EDU>
List: port-pmax
Date: 11/27/1996 18:02:54 
Jason Thorpe writes:
>Old versions of tar(1) couldn't deal with device special files.  GNU
>tar(1) and pax(1) can, so some NetBSD ports ship device special files
>in the archives.

I can't find any indication  in /usr/src/distrib/sets/lists that
this is actually so....